DD offering financing, Colts in the $800s, BCM giving free BCGs with upper receiver purchases…
Just how bad are things for manufacturers right now? Did Sandy Hook create any new consumers or did everyone just buy last year the rifle that they would’ve normally bought this year?
Can you say:
Buyer’s market?
Yup.
Thank you Obummer.
I’ve yet to see top tier AR’s prices plummet that low at any local shop, or online. Who knows though.
well the economy is still in the dumps too… without a panic to get people to impulse buy i imagine things are tapering off quite severely.
They all got bought up after sandy hook and Obama’s gun control circus, demand shot through the roof so the manufacturers started making them as fast as they could, then everybody who wanted one got one and we ended up with a surplus of ar-15’s. I just bought another colt 6920 on gunbroker for $799, add $30 shipping and $50 transfer fee and it was $879 before tax. Can’t complain about that. Pre sandy hook prices were what? $1100?
3 months after Sandy Hook 6920’s here in DFW were going for up to $3K… People are stupid.
I remember that, they wanted $2500-$3000 for used rifles at the local shops here. No new ones to be found. It was nuts.
Holy Price Gouging, Batman.
I’ve got my two ARs and one AK and 10,000 rounds for each platform.
I’m not expecting an Apocalypse, but … one can never have too much of this kind of thing.
That’s nothing… I watched a dude standing in line at the gun show at Dallas Market Hall buy 2 Olympic Arms AR’s for $3750 cash money. Insane is what that was…
sweet jesus… thank you sir, I just bought an upper.
Shit. Back in early 13, Jackson Arms in South San Francisco had an awful, heavy tacticooled Bushmaster for around $3K. First and last time I ever went into that ghetto dump.
Sandy hook scare brought about 12 full months of consumption forward. This also caused manufacturers to ramp up production. What are now experiencing the follow on consumption gap. Give it another 6-8 months
Aggregating. I bought an upper a few weeks ago and no free BCG.
Aggravating too … I bought one on Monday! :mad:
Bought one a few weeks ago, and just had the BCG I bought delivered today.
Overall, I still got a great deal (got one of the 14.5 blem uppers with C4 rails). But why did they have to do that right after I told my wife I was done buying AR’s for now?
Maybe I need to order another 1 or 3.
I’m hoping they’ll give me some store credit. I need a trigger and a light.
Prices are down, and on the retailer side its hard to sell in comparison to other years. After SH you couldn’t find a AR on the shelf for under $2k, now every pawn shop and mom and pop shop has 30 on the consignment rack.
Accessory sales are doing well though.
Prices fluctuate. I bought two BCM uppers and BCG’s during the panic period. Prices have come down since. I’ve bought more uppers and BCG’s since then. Prices have changed again. If the price was good enough for me to order it in the first place, I am happy. I got what I paid for.
Market forces keep the prices in flux. Prices could sky rocket tomorrow.
During the last panic, a coworker offered to buy one of my AR’s for $6k.
Now is the time to buy, obviously. Another shooting could happen tomorrow and the panic start all over again. If you have gaps you want to fill and the disposable income to do it, now is the time.